Aunt Catrin said there was room enough for Mam and Marti in the house now the lousy feck was gone and wouldn’t be back. Mam said she was terrible sorry for the way things had turned out, but Marti wasn’t sorry because he was glad to be out the caravan, which was very cold entirely.
It was lovely and warm inside the house with the big fire going and there was bread for toasting on the fire if you couldn’t take it a bit hard, or there was porridge instead, said Aunt Catrin. Mam said she would take the porridge because there had been no porridge in Australia, only oatmeal, which wasn’t the same thing at all, and Marti said he would have the bread for toasting.
“I don’t want you going overboard with the butter,” whispered Mam when Aunt Catrin went to get their breakfast. “Sure, doesn’t she p
